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LUCAS COUHTYj OHIO. Jolm M* Kilits, A. M., LL. B., Editor, Toledo and Lucas Gounty, Ohio, lt?25~1985*
[Vol* II, p* 60] James M* Ashley, resident of Toledo from 1851 to his death in 169 5* Bom near Pittsburgh, Pa«f Nov* 24, 1822* Removed with his parents from'Wennsylvaina to Ohio in 1826, settling at Portsmouth* Ran away from home at 14 years of age| found employment as cabin bojfc ®n a packet boat plying on the Ohio Ril^er and later as a clerk on one of these* [Picture of Mr* Ashley facing p* 60]. During [p* 63] his service on the Ohio River [young Ashley witnessed the darkest side of the slave traffic and » « early developed an abhorrence of the entire system and did what he could to help stamp it out* He often assisted runaway slaves • % an extremely dangerous operation in a then pro-slaveiy region, and became in this way a component part of the great and historic **undergroimd tailway*"
Mr* Ashley finally retumed to Portsmouth, where he / learned the printer's trad€<,He married there in 1851 and removed to Toledo and established a wholesale drug busliness* In 1854 he took aa active part in organizing the newly founded Republican party in the Toledo district* A little later he delivered before a vast assemblage at Montpelier, Otiio, an address that mar|:»d him as a radical antl-slaveiy man and placed him in the front rank of abolf itionists*
In 1858 he was nominated and elected to Congress as a Republioan from the Toledo district and served for 10 years*

LUCAS COUHTYj OHIO. Jolm M* Kilits, A. M., LL. B., Editor, Toledo and Lucas Gounty, Ohio, lt?25~1985*
[Vol* II, p* 60] James M* Ashley, resident of Toledo from 1851 to his death in 169 5* Bom near Pittsburgh, Pa«f Nov* 24, 1822* Removed with his parents from'Wennsylvaina to Ohio in 1826, settling at Portsmouth* Ran away from home at 14 years of age| found employment as cabin bojfc ®n a packet boat plying on the Ohio Ril^er and later as a clerk on one of these* [Picture of Mr* Ashley facing p* 60]. During [p* 63] his service on the Ohio River [young Ashley witnessed the darkest side of the slave traffic and » « early developed an abhorrence of the entire system and did what he could to help stamp it out* He often assisted runaway slaves • % an extremely dangerous operation in a then pro-slaveiy region, and became in this way a component part of the great and historic **undergroimd tailway*"
Mr* Ashley finally retumed to Portsmouth, where he / learned the printer's trad€